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Public Domain Enhancement Act reintroducedPublic Domain Enhancement Act reintroducedPosted May 25, 2005 13:55 UTC (Wed) by sphealey (guest, #1028)In reply to: Public Domain Enhancement Act reintroduced by khim Parent article: Public Domain Enhancement Act reintroduced
> What is the excuse? It is that the author who produced that book
Of course, it was the government in the Hobbesian sense that prevented the general public from just taking the work in the first place, as was done for the first 10,000 years of human history, by creating the concept of copyright, granting it, and then enforcing it against the citizenry for the agreed-upon term. Society's return on investment for that forebearance is that the author not complain when the work enters the public domain at the end of the term - otherwise, it would have entered the public domain the first time he published it.
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Public Domain Enhancement Act reintroduced Posted May 25, 2005 23:13 UTC (Wed) by XERC (guest, #14626) [Link] I agree. But, there is a question, WHAT IS AGOVERNMENT? Governmet, that should be us, the cociety, and, at least in eastern europe, it tends to be us, the simple society. You know, each nation has the government that it deserves, so, if the government screws up, we've got nobody else to complain but ourselves: why weren't we active enough to piecefully enforce and cultivate(by lobbying, by providing technical means that help to enchance democracy, etc.) the kind of laws and understandings that we like.
Public Domain Enhancement Act reintroduced Posted May 25, 2005 23:24 UTC (Wed) by XERC (guest, #14626) [Link] UUps, I forgot to mention. That's waht we'reexactly doing: some of us are developing new forum related software, cooperating with E-government project people, to enchance and X(I don't know the term in english, but it means: "to take in to use and to be used to using it".) public discussion about politics and to turn the debate between general public and the government a daily and natural piece of our decideing process. I'm sorry for the spelling mistakes. Currently I don't have a spell checker available, as I use Knoppix 3.6 (and the Kate spell checker didn't work).
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